If you say so. To me Austen wrote about the kind of woman I never liked and never wanted to spend time with and wrote the worst book I’ve ever tried to read. I know others worship it, but P&P bored me in ways I’ve never been bored before or since. I don’t really think the King adaptations are of anything obscure, his books sell way too well to be obscure. Yes a lot of the adaptations are of short stories, but those short stories tend to appear in collections that sky rocket to the top of the best seller list. And about the only stuff that goes direct to video is spinoffs of adaptations, the the Children of the Corn series, only the first and most recent were really based on the story, the 6 in the middle were just franchising. I count 34 theatrical releases based on Kings stuff on the wiki page, skipping remakes and sequels many of which didn’t go theatrical. King is the horror part of our shared culture right now.
I meant that the King adaptations themselves are fairly obscure. Probably the best known from the last 15 years is ‘The Mist’ and that didn’t exactly set the box office on fire. Jane Austen was making gentle fun of those types of women and the culture that shaped their expectations.